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easily irritated or annoyed
- 'If you talk so, I won't tell you any more,' she returned, peevishly rising to her feet.Chapter 9 (26% in)
- 'The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.Chapter 1 (19% in)
- His peevish reproofs wakened in her a naughty delight to provoke him: she was never so happy as when we were all scolding her at once, and she defying us with her bold, saucy look, and her ready words; turning Joseph's religious curses into ridicule, baiting me, and doing just what her father hated most — showing how her pretended insolence, which he thought real, had more power over Heathcliff than his kindness: how the boy would do HER bidding in anything, and HIS only when it suited...Chapter 5 (50% in)
- Her affection tired very soon, however, and when she grew peevish, Hindley became tyrannical.Chapter 6 (18% in)
- 'Yes — very foolish: as if I took notice!' replied Catherine, in a peevish tone.Chapter 8 (66% in)
- The morning was fresh and cool; I threw back the lattice, and presently the room filled with sweet scents from the garden; but Catherine called peevishly to me, 'Ellen, shut the window.Chapter 9 (80% in)
- In this self-complacent conviction she departed; and the success of her fulfilled resolution was obvious on the morrow: Mr. Linton had not only abjured his peevishness (though his spirits seemed still subdued by Catherine's exuberance of vivacity), but he ventured no objection to her taking Isabella with her to Wuthering Heights in the afternoon; and she rewarded him with such a summer of sweetness and affection in return as made the house a paradise for several days; both master and...Chapter 10 (56% in)
- He was christened Linton, and, from the first, she reported him to be an ailing, peevish creature.Chapter 17 (72% in)
- A pale, delicate, effeminate boy, who might have been taken for my master's younger brother, so strong was the resemblance: but there was a sickly peevishness in his aspect that Edgar Linton never had.Chapter 19 (27% in)
- I then quitted her again, and she drew the bolt in one of her worst, most peevish humours.Chapter 21 (79% in)
- 'Joseph!' cried a peevish voice, simultaneously with me, from the inner room.Chapter 23 (6% in)
- I think I should not be peevish with you: you'd not provoke me, and you'd always be ready to help me, wouldn't you?'Chapter 23 (28% in)
- That was worse: she fretted and sighed, and looked at her watch till eight, and finally went to her room, completely overdone with sleep; judging by her peevish, heavy look, and the constant rubbing she inflicted on her eyes.Chapter 24 (5% in)
- The pettishness that might be caressed into fondness, had yielded to a listless apathy; there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others as an insult.Chapter 26 (34% in)
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